The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-08-12

ranted that very committee In expelling
them.
Thar is Doc down all fair and squar'
an now fer the others
The committee worked long and
faithfully in one corner, occasionally
stopping for some Of the fluid stimulant
furnished at two bits q glass at the bar
Of the Star of the West A carefully
prepared list was made up. Itineluded
nearly all of the professional gamblers
Of Golden Sand Camp and all of the
bad men" and other dangerous char
acters. 1t was, in fact. q list of names
of citizens whom the Camp might well
spare.
This movement looking to the inn
provement of the moral atmosphere Of
Golden Sand is one quite frequently
experienced by Western communities,
It is = movement which comes very
slowly and, 1 regret to say, one which
generally does not remain popular as
long as it should. But when it does
come and while it-lasts it is the most
thorough and sweeping reform, look
ing at it from the standard of the COM
munity in which it takes place. which
could possibly occur. There are no
halfway measures, no debating the
question, no lawsuits, no ineficiency
of officers, no any thing but a warning
from the committee and prompt COM
pliance by the Objectionable persons,
whom experience has usually given a
greater respect for discretion than valor
on such an occasion.
Doc Reynolds, who had been unani-
mously accorded the distinction of
heading the list, was the best known
gambler in the camp. He was a tall,
wcll-formed man, with smooth face and
a thoughtful, preoccupied air. He al
ways dressed as unassumingly as posi-
Bile, and his whole aim seemed to be to
attend strictly to business and attract
as little attention as possible. He was
very quiet; in fact, barring an Occa-
sional necessary remark concerning the
bets or the requirements of his hands,
he was scarcely ever known to utter a
word. When spoken to directly he al
ways answered politely, but always
briefly. What his opinions on the
thousand and one questions which con-
tinually agitated the public mind of
Golden Sand were, no one knew. On
rare occasions he had been known to
make playful remark on some pass
ing event. and it was even whispered
that once or twice he had been known
to grow quite talkative for the space of
five minutes. And the remarkable
thing about it was that these few oc-
casions had invariably been when ris-
ing from a game early in the morning
in which he had been so unlucky as to
become dead broke" and that his re-
marks were always of the most humor-
Gus character. The stories of these oc-
casions had given him the reputation
of having a remarkably elastic DISPOSE
ton which no misfortune could cloud
and also, whether desc rived or not. of
being a remarkably good story-teller
if he was only disposed to try. II
/ b'lieve," was the remark of Jack Mid
dleton, that eff we could keep that cuss
dead broke all the time that he would
be a laundering good fellow to enter
| tain crowd"
/ But Reynolds was one of the hardest
men in the Hills to keep broke for any
| length of time. He was the coolest
man who ever turned a card. He
seemed to be equally at home with any
| game. He was seldom caught in cheat
| ing, though it was known that he
! could make the cards run as nearly as
/ he wanted them to rs any man in the
| camp. Aud usually when he was de
/ tected in practicing what was known
/ to Golden Sand as monkey work
! the other party preferred to keep
still. rs Mr.. Reynolds could produce a
! gun" to back up his position even
/ quicker than he could handle pack of
cards. Cool, desperate and feared, il
is not strange that his name should have
| headed the list made up by the Moral
Improvement Society of Golden Sand
Camp.
He received his notification to go
while engaged in his favorite game.
He made no reply, but finished the
deal.
That air order. / wanter to say
explained Lem Upton. as Reynolds
picked up his hand. "goes inter effect
now, 10 onrt. You're to get out o. this
ERE camp inside o thirty minutes. -
II find, replied Reynolds, speaking
/ for the first time, and as if he had ex-
| tracted the information from the hand
which he laid down, THAT it will be
! impossible for me to remain in your
/ city. Pressing business, gentlemen, -
/ he continued, with q wave of the hand.
''compels me Ia leave Golden Sand,
much as / should like to remain"
He arose from the table and looked at
the committee with a faint smile.
burned eff dom b'lieve yer right, -
! said Judge Pott, in astonishment
quite So" returned Mr.. Reynolds,
II have carefully canvassed the sub
/ icct during the last minute and find
/ that nothing could induce me to stay
/ longer than half an hour. Please have
/ the goodness to give my respects to
such of my friends as | will be unable
( TO see owing to the extreme haste with
which it will be necessary to wind up
my business interests here before walk
ing up the gulch."
well, you air a cool one, sure
enough-hanged if we don't do it fer
We, replied the astOnished Judge Pott.
| Reynolds went out and the committee
went on with its work of publication.
A Half hour later Doc Reynolds was
seen going along the main street of the
town, which ran straight up Silver Tip
Gulch. Declining an invitation tO
drink with some friends at the Last
! Chance saloon be said:
4 Unforeseen events make il neces-
sary that go up this gulch few hun
dred miles and look after certain bust
ness interests. Time was never more